On 26 May, Paul A Vixie wrote:

> In VMS and MPE, shared libraries are system level objects which are known
> to the kernel's loader.
Very interresting. It is allways enlightening to look beyond the *ix
horizon. It is sad that I don't have the time to explore e.g. VMS. My
4k200 and the 4k400 would be a very nice cluster... (An other thing
that may Unixes can learn from VMS). 

> I'm not anti-UNIX. 
Ahhmmm. I never expected that Paul A. Vixie is anti-UNIX. :-) 
I know that you are the (co) author of many well knowen programms, cron
and bind comes here first in my mind. 

> The other systems are also toys in their own ways, and
> do I run UNIX (BSD to be precise) and not VMS or MPE.  But the toyness runs
> the opposite way when it comes to shared libraries.  UNIX's are just a toy,
> and a broken toy at that.
Well. Nothing is perfect. But for me, Unix is the least unperfect
system amongst all that unperfect systems. 
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tschüß,
         Jochen

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